Morgan Delt – Morgan Delt

The influence of 60s and 70s drug music shows up a lot in Californian bedroom producer Morgan Delt's own sounds, but there's a modern aesthetic running through this self-titled LP which puts him more in line with recent imitators. Beneath The Black And Purple, a colourful burst of retro-indebted pop, sounds like a mellowed-out Thee Oh Sees being fronted by Ty Segall.

 

Accessible pop gems are constantly being bent out of shape by mischievous experimental sounds: Mr. Carbon Copy interchanges between ghostly weirdness and sugary melodies, but the songs soon descend into an aggressive collage of genres and influences, particularly Sad Sad Trip, whose dub-bass and tuneless guitar throbs all coexist in the same space for no clear reason. Backwards Bird Inc. is simply an odd clash of buzzing and disorientating effects. Even at a modest half-hour in length, there just aren't enough cohesively-placed ideas here to carry Morgan Delt beyond the realm of novelty.